Durham Grange Club Campsite

Rated 4 of 5

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Rated 5 of 5

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Rated 5 of 5

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Good for families

Handy site for families

Very handy site for Durham either by car or park and ride and great days out for families. As mentioned by others, the motorway is close and can be heard but really didn't bother us. A good sized playground for toddlers to older children. Good toddler room. Friendly wardens. Pizza Van visits twice a week.

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Caravanner

Reviewed on 28/07/2015 19:00

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Rated 4 of 5

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Rated 4 of 5

Good for families

Space Invaders.

We had a very enjoyable time at this club site, apart from one aspect. We made the mistake of pitching opposite the sanitation block and suffered from people walking across our pitch, even when we were sat outside eating a meal or reading, people just cut across us on their way to the loo/showers. A dedicated pathway between two pitches would hopefully help eliminate some of this rude behaviour.

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doberman2

Reviewed on 27/07/2015 14:17

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Rated 4 of 5

Good for families

July 2015 visit.

5th time staying at this site, without hesitation would recommend yet again. Traffic noise is present, due to A1m running close by, but you get used to it. Ideal place for visiting Durham and surrounded tourist sites Beamish & Digger Land for the Kids.

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Xander04

Caravanner

Reviewed on 26/07/2015 18:06

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Rated 4 of 5

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Rated 4 of 5

Good for families

great for visiting Durham

Nice Clean Friendly site Park and ride to Durham 500yds away yes you can here road noise but after a short while you don't notice it

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Rocket Man

Caravanner

Reviewed on 22/07/2015 19:39

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Rated 4 of 5

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Rated 4 of 5

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Rated 5 of 5

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Rated 3 of 5

Good for families

A week beside the motorway

Well the title reflects what we anticipated. And indeed the A1(M) is visible through the trees in places and the background noise is evident except during the small hours but this site has many attributes. It is within easy distance of many local attractions including the Durham coast. It is very convenient for Durham, helped by the Park and Ride being about 500yds from the site. £2 return. The site is clean and tidy as ever and the wardens have placed planted pots to add colour to the site. We spent a week here and I have booked to come back in November. The site is popular with one night stayers breaking their journeys but I would recommend coming to stay a while. And yes, you can hear the birds singing. There is a lovely play area for the children and a nice dog walk.

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PortlandBill

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Reviewed on 12/07/2015 23:32

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Rated 4 of 5

Rated 3 of 5

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Rated 4 of 5

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Rated 3 of 5

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Rated 4 of 5

Good for families

good site

We have had two recent one night stays at Durham. First time for a couple of years. Starting with the best points - the wardens. Very welcoming, friendly and helpful. (Sadly not something which can be taken for granted.) The site is well maintained in every way. (The toilet block isn't the newest but it is fine and kept very clean.) Also a very convenient location if in transit on A1(M) or for visiting Durham. The children's playground is certainly one of the better ones. So in general a good site. The less good points include the almost constant background traffic noise, although we don't find this a problem. It is an unpleasant, and potentially dangerous, site to leave on a bicycle due to being on busy dual carriageway shortly before large roundabout with A1(M) which is unavoidable. And lastly the wifi doesn't work. In between the two visits we stayed on a non-Club site in a very remote area with perfect free wifi on every pitch. This year most of our visits to Club sites have been to sites where the wifi doesn't work, although the wifi is shown on the website as a facility and there is nothing on the website to indicate the contrary

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Cleveland motorhomer

Motorhomer

Reviewed on 29/06/2015 15:12

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Rated 4 of 5

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Rated 3 of 5

Good for families

Great for Durham

We stayed for 2 nights 17-18 June the site has friendly wardens and is well maintained, unable to locate river walk details in the information room – though these are available from reception. Previously upon arrival wardens have highlighted available pitches on the site map as there are 4 categories on this site, it took a while to find an available one. My concern here and this was passed on to the wardens is the use of pitches (hardstanding) as walk routes. This was very annoying until the adjacent pitch was empty. My suggestion for future development is for hedges between pitches?

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jpmag99

Reviewed on 26/06/2015 19:59

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Good for families

Great base for visiting Durham

We had two nights on this site so that we could spend time with a relative who lives in Durham. Access to the site was really easy, straight off the A1 junction, so not hard to find. The drawback to being so close to the A1 was that there was some road noise, however we didn't notice it when in the van, just if we were sitting out. The facilities were excellent and as expected on a club site, though I heard a lot of people moaning about the fact that mops in the showers had been replace by the squeegee things, however I much prefer these to mops sitting in dirty looking water. The site is well laid out with an excellent dog walk and plenty of poo bins (just a shame a minority appear to be unable to get to grips with the concept of picking up). There are plenty of trees and shrubbery to give the site a rural feel and we were pleased to see hedgehogs roaming the site and plenty of bird life. We were sufficiently impressed with the site to have already rebooked for later in the year.

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NJJKin

Caravanner

Reviewed on 19/06/2015 12:09

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Rated 3 of 5

Good for families

Great Site, Great Location... But the road noise...

Good site, really handy for the Park & Ride, but so close to the A1(M) you can clearly hear it inside your caravan. We went in a wet and windy November & it was noisy, so I imagine it will be even noisier in the summer months with the higher air pressure making sound travel further. That said, the noise wasn't terrible and didn't stop us sleeping, but the constant drone is there. A shame as this is the only negative about this site.

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Flakmunky

Caravanner

Reviewed on 08/06/2015 22:17

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Rated 4 of 5

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Rated 5 of 5

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Rated 5 of 5

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Rated 4 of 5

Good for families

An enjoyable 5 night stay

We stayed here for a few days in March 2015 whilst visiting family in the area. It is a good location for the sights of the North East and we had a great day out at Beamish where we have not visited for over 30 years. We did not notice significant road noise from the nearby A1 and had a pleasant stay.

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HappyWanderers

Caravanner

Reviewed on 08/06/2015 09:24

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